----- Original Message -----
> From: Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>
> To: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
> Cc: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>; PD List <pd-list@iem.at>; i go
> bananas <hard....@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [expr] license issue (update)
>
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:35:26PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> I don't think anyone claims copyright on correcting a small typo, for
>> example.
>
> There are all kinds of crazy people in the world who claim things they don't
> have the right to, but to pursue the matter ad absurdum, any lawsuit over a
> small typo is going to be thrown out for failing a de minimis test.
>
> Nevertheless, I understand wanting to err on the side of safety. Politics and
> courtesy probably play a larger role here than actual legal concerns. And I
> certainly agree with Jonathan that IANAL. :)
>
>> Marvin said something about implicitly giving up copyright, in the
>> previous big thread about licenses (in sep+oct).
>
> I must have said something about granting implicit license under the license
> of the project when you provide a patch, which is definitely not the same
> thing as implicitly giving up copyright.
Right. I believe the linux kernel devs explicitly inherit licenses with a
"signed-off-by" tag
that gets send along with the code of the patch. In this case or with Pd, the
dev is making
code in the patch public under the license of the code to which the patch is
going
to be applied. But the dev is not making any kind of agreement to give up
their
copyright in either case. (Check out the responses on the kernel dev list to
the guy
who offered $50,000 for a license to a snapshot of the kernel and you'll see
how
quickly contributors remember which parts of a project is under their copyright
and _not_ subject to a license change.)
Anyway, the bigger question is whether one needs IRCAM's permission to
re-license
the code. If so, it's probably _way_ easier just to code a new version. If
not, contacting
the handful of developers who have worked on expr might be a workable solution.
-Jonathan
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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